firefox is regularly dying

[Patrick O'Callaghan]

On Sat, 2009-04-11 at 05:19 -0400, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> as of earlier this morning, firefox has simply aborted when i try to
> do nothing more than follow a perfectly decent link.  it's happened
> three times in the last 20 minutes.  is anyone else seeing firefox
> just going away for no reason?
> 
> $ rpm -q firefox
> firefox-3.1-0.11.beta3.fc11.x86_64

May or may not be related, but since I updated to FF 3.0.8 it has been
failing several times a day on F10. There is never anything
in /var/log/messages. I do have regular segfaults with npviewer (always
at the same place in libpthread-2.9.so). These however *don't* crash FF.

I switched to 3.1b3 (not an rpm but downloaded directly from Mozilla)
and it hasn't failed so far.

The 3.0.8 is an x86_64 rpm, the 3.1b3 is an i386 binary. On my Asus
netbook (i386) 3.0.8 has never failed.

poc